Lincoln Park station

Lincoln Park is a station on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line in the borough of Lincoln Park, Morris County, New Jersey. The station is located near the Comly Road overpass, accessible from Main Street, Station Road and Park Avenue.

Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park station and its lone platform facing westbound heading towards the 1905 station.
General information
Location	Main Street at Comly Road, Lincoln Park, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°55′27″N 74°18′08″W
Owned by	NJ Transit
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 871 Lakeland: 46 (on Route 202, limited Lakeland service)
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	10
History
Opened	September 12, 1870 (freight service)[1] December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[2]
Rebuilt	1905[3]
Previous names	Beavertown
Passengers
2017	101 (average weekday)[4][5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Towaco toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line limited service Mountain View toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Towaco toward Dover Boonton Branch Mountain View toward Hoboken
Location

History

Railroad service in Lincoln Park began on September 12, 1870 with the extension of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch as a freight only stop known as Beavertown. Passenger service began on December 14, 1870. The railroad built the current station depot in 1905.^[6]

Station layout

The station has two tracks and one side platform. The station is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^{[citation needed]}

It features a parking lot on both sides, and a waiting room with a bathroom. The station also has a pedestrian crossing with two railroad crossing signs that each have two yellow lights which always blink. The station has two tracks that run through, although only one of those tracks are used for passenger service. Lincoln Park has a roughly 1 mile (1.6 km)-long siding that runs right through the station that is dispatcher controlled. It was formerly used for meets before midday service was discontinued, and no longer sees service by revenue trains.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
• Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 1: Hoboken to Dover. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. ISBN 9781582482149.

References

1. Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
2. Lyon 1873, p. 55.
3. Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 748. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
4. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
5. "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
6. Yanosey 2007, p. 118.

External links

• Station from Comly Road from Google Maps Street View